Monday 15 January 2024

EL PAÍS in English

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Ecuador declared a state of emergency this week and President Daniel Noboa said the government is “at war” with criminal organizations after a wave of violence erupted in prisons and on the streets across the country. (...) The military has been deployed throughout Ecuador and in Guayaquil, a small army has been posted outside Noboa’s home. The president has said that the authorities will try to retake control, with blood and fire if necessary.

A new legal and diplomatic front was opened in Israel’s war against Hamas Thursday when South Africa presented a lawsuit at the United Nations International Court of Justice against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government for allegedly violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. South Africa alleges that Israel has taken actions to destroy the Palestinian population that go beyond legitimate self-defense, (...)

Elsewhere, with the war in Ukraine approaching its third year, EL PAÍS sat down with Dmytro Kuleba to discuss talk of a ceasefire amid wavering Western support and a brutal war of attrition on the frontlines. “We do not have a plan B,” the foreign minister said of the blocked EU and U.S. funds for Kyiv, while expressing his optimism that they will eventually arrive. (...)

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